* connect: fix crash that would result if a mesh or terminating gateway's upstream has a hostname as an address and no healthy service instances available. [[GH-8158](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8158)]
* connect: Fixed issue where specifying a prometheus bind address would cause ingress gateways to fail to start up [[GH-8371]](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/pull/8371)
* gossip: Avoid issue where two unique leave events for the same node could lead to infinite rebroadcast storms [[GH-8343](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8343)]
* snapshot: **(Consul Enterprise only)** Fixed a regression when using Azure blob storage.
* xds: version sniff envoy and switch regular expressions from 'regex' to 'safe_regex' on newer envoy versions [[GH-8222](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/8222)]